perllinux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems

• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
  • Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS
• AUTHOR

NAME

perllinux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems

DESCRIPTION

This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs.

Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS

Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compilers for Linux. As of November 2005, only an alpha version has been released. Until a release of these compilers is made, support for compiling Perl with these compiler experimental.

Also, some special instructions for building Perl with Sun Studio on Linux. Following the normal Configure , you have to run make as follows:

LDLOADLIBS=-lc make

LDLOADLIBS is an environment variable used by the linker to link modules /ext modules to glibc. Currently, that environment variable is not getting populated by a combination of Config entries and ExtUtil::MakeMaker . While there may be a bug somewhere in Perl's configuration or ExtUtil::MakeMaker causing the problem, the most likely cause is an incomplete understanding of Sun Studio by this author. Further investigation is needed to get this working better.

AUTHOR

Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>

Please report any errors, updates, or suggestions to perlbug@perl.org.